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The Legacies of Ancient GreeceThe Legacies of Ancient Greece
What is a legacy?
Traditions, skills and knowledge of a culture that get passed on to
people in the future
Something a culture is known for
A gift from the past
What will they write
of your legacy?
The Legacies of Ancient Greece
The Legacies of Ancient Greece
architecturearchitecture
philosophyphilosophy
OlympicsOlympics
epicsepics
Greekmythology
Greekmythology
tragedycomedytragedycomedy
trial by jury
trial by jury
democracydemocracyscientificmethod
scientificmethod
SocraticMethod
SocraticMethod
theatertheater
classificationclassification
marathonmarathon
HippocraticOath
HippocraticOath
Democracy
Athens developed the first
democracy
Greek word meaning “power of
the people”
A government where the people have the right to make decisions about
leaders and laws
The U.S. government is based on Athenian
democracy.
Athens had the first democratic constitution (a set of rules for how the government should run)
All men over 20 years old could participate in the Assembly (the lawmaking group)
Each year 500 names of citizens were drawn to be on the Council of Five Hundred who ran the daily business of Athens
Democratic Roots
Trial By Jury
When a group of citizens decides if a person is innocent or guilty of a
crime
Serving on a jury was a citizen’s duty
About 500 jurors for a trial
Jurors were paid for service
Epics
Long poems written about gods, heroes and history of a
culture
Wrote the Iliad about the Trojan War
Homer most famous author of Greek epics.
The Odyssey about a Trojan War hero, Odysseus
Greek Mythology
Myths are stories about gods & goddesses that were used to explain events in nature
Poseidon Hades Hermes
Hera Apollo Artemis Hephaestus
Athena Demeter Aphrodite
Ares
Zeus
12 Major gods & goddesses of Mt. Olympus
Theater
Grew out of festivals dedicated to Dionysus and developed into stories that
were acted out
Theater was carved into a hillside
Only male actors but women could watch
Plays were performed at festivals and became competitions
Actors wore masks to show gender, age & mood
Theater
Greek theater in Miletus
Tragedy & Comedy
Types of plays first developed by the Greeks
Tragedy: plays about suffering
Comedy: plays with a happy ending that pokes fun at certain types of people
Aeschylus
Aristophanes
Olympic Games
Festival held in Olympia to honor Zeus
Every four years-began 776B.C.
Called a truce from war
Only men: women couldn’t watch
Won an olive wreath
Olympians swore not to cheat
Winners were heroes
Olympic Games
Foot Races
Pancratium
Boxing
Warrior’s Race
WrestlingPentathlo
n
Javelin
Discus
Messengers &
Trumpeters
776 BCE
Marathon
Greeks defeated the Persians at Marathon
Pheidippides ran to Athens (about 26 miles) to announce the victory
He reached Athens, cried out Nike! (goddess of victory), and fell over
dead.
Footrace that is 26 miles, 385 yards long
Architecture
CorinthianDoric Ionic
The art and science of building
Greeks well known for using three styles of columns in their buildings
Architecture
The Temple of Athena Nike located very close to the Parthenon was built in the Ionic style.
The Parthenon on the Acropolis in Athens was built in the Doric style.
Architecture
The design of many buildings today influenced by the classical style of the Greeks.
Supreme Court Building in Wash. D.C.
Why would many U.S. government buildings have been built using Greek architecture?
Philosophy
Love of wisdom; trying to figure things out through learning and
reasoning
Socrates
Socratic Method
Plato
Aristotle
Political Science
Science & Logic
Socratic Method
Teaching through step-by-step questions that are designed to lead
the student to the truth
Socrates was a Greek
philosopher who wanted people to question and
think for themselves
Athenians were afraid and
threatened by his ideas, so he was tried and put to death.
Classification of Living Things
A system of grouping plants and animals that have similar
characteristics
Developed by Aristotle
Helps scientists to handle a lot of info.
Still used today
Scientific Method
Process used by scientists to study something
1Collect
Info
2Form
Hypothesis
3Test
Hypothesis
Hippocratic Oath
A list of rules about practicing medicine that doctors today still
promise to follow
Hippocrates was
the “Father of Scientific Medicine”460-370
BCE
Believed that
disease came from
natural causes not evil spirits4. Keep the secrets of
patients
3. Never give poisons
2. Do your best for the sick
1. Honor your teachers
Legacies of Ancient Greece
What will our legacies be?
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